19/10/2009

here are all the lyrics for the album, plus track listing, credits etc. i feel like i've left stuff out in the credits department, but can't think of anything specific. does anyone wish to have anything else included? i've included a thanks to cabinet pin and the 20th project since it's been fairly pivotal - is there anything else we should credit? David, I'm not sure how you want to credit yourself in the artwork - whether by your own name, kind permission, parc, telafonica, whatever...feel free to use whichever you would prefer - i've left it blank at the moment.

4-4-2 Music442-016TelafonicaLove On The Second Stair

1. I Can't Make You Love Me2. Smells Like Rain3. But I Lose Myself4. The Quest For Love Aboard The Belafonte5. Æowyn And The Absolute Truth6. Cover7. Time To Move The Nest8. Don't Speak For Me9. The Separation Prepared This For Another Marriage

All songs written, performed and produced by Telafonica

Castañelas on I Can't Make You Love Me and Don't Speak For Me by Vanessa Caratala Pastor

Artwork by .........

Special thanks to Jeff at Cabinet Pin Records and the 20th Project - many of these tracks started life on the 20th of one month or other.

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I Can't Make You Love Me

I can't make you love me but I can show you how I feelI can't make you want me but I can listen to youI can't make you tell me but I can stumble in your pain

I can't make you show me but I can see it anywayI can't make it plainer but you can still run awayI can't make you answer but I can keep on asking why

In the quietness of your heart

I can't make you notice but I can do all things for youI can't turn the darkness off but I can light up all the truthI can't wait forever but I can give you enough time

I can't do any more for you than give myself awayAnd you can realise all this and still you turn awayAnd with everything that I do it's ultimately your say

But/Because I can't make you love me

Smells Like Rain

And it smells like rain and kingdoms fallAnd Spring has come and there are sounds of warAnd dust will rise and a man will crawlJust to deny he has a soul

Look into the beauty of rust as it recovers the steelThe grass through the cracks in the pavementLook into the storm clouds coming in grey and in greenAnd tell me that you're still in control

Because I don't want to live my life in shadow and in ignoranceYou cannot convince me, just look into the detailThe light is there when we begin, shows the beauty in everythingAnd Reason has its limits, just look into the details

But I Lose Myself

Hello! Hello! Can you hear my soul? I’ve had enough of my reflection, can you make me whole? You know I’ve seen so many cracksMaybe I’ve done too many things to ever go back

I heard a sound, a steaming trainAnd I feel I’ll never ride that beat again.Ah mercy me while I’m in this hellI can save up for a rainy day but I lose myself

I liked the way that he said my nameIf I knew then what I know now I’d prob’ly do the sameHello! Hello! Can you find my heart?Can you reconnect all the pieces that I’ve ripped apart?

It all tasted good and I felt so sureThat the stuff that I had done was never done beforeAh mercy me while I’m in this hellI can save up for a rainy day but I lose myself

The Quest For Love Aboard The Belafonte

Once I sailed ‘cross the seaLove was waiting for meThen my ship ran aground(Hadn’t left the harbour)Found a far safer boatBraved the sea once againStormy weather prevailedFound it tricky to float

If love is waiting across the seaThere’s no hope for me

Once I sailed ‘round the worldCairo, Paris and RomeSaw all the sights I could see‘Til I ran out of moneyMet a tall, foreign manVery good at talkingFound a job, feeling good(He took all my money)

If love is found in a love affairLove’s not anywhereIf love’s not down at the market squareIt’s not anywhere

If love’s not down at the market squareIt’s not anywhereIf love’s not there on the second stairIt’s not anywhereIf love’s not part of the wear and tearIt’s not anywhereIf love is chasing me everywhere

Æowyn And The Absolute Truth

You push playAnd the truth spills out of your room'Til it fills up our houseAnd it fills up our heartsAll the holes disappearAnd you dance

All of the soundsTiptoe and sway'Til they’re waltzing aboutAnd they’re carriedAnd the hope that was hiddenSoon comes out to playAnd you dance

Outside is darknessInside is lightNothing is lostThere are no tears tonightTruth shakes the floorboardsLove pumps through the pipesJoy rushes in sound wavesAround us

Your voice in the midstIs colour and warmthIt calls out my heart And it calls out my voiceIt calls to me always“Come and dance”And you dance

Cover

The end of all things is nearCome here my friend, come over hereThis love is deep enough to coverAll your slings and arrows

The blow comes swiftIt takes my breathBut I’d do it again

The road goes backThrough winding waysI would go there again

The view from here Is a fiery redAnd the thoughts that force themselvesInto my headAre of lingering doubtAnd a nagging dreadBut I will goI will go there with you

Time To Move The Nest

The eagle sees fit to move the nest awayIn this understanding, I am tackled by the well wishes of those who would no longer be the ones to continue those well wishes

Winds and rains guide the flightThey sustain the contentment realised in commanded movement

I am assured that this is the good way

Don't Speak For Me

Wrong time, wrong placeWrong god, wrong head spaceDon’t speak for me

Two souls in one suitDon’t fit won’t sellI have one heartDon’t speak for me

All roads do not lead homeAll roads do not lead homeThe truth is not unknownAll roads do not lead home

The Separation Prepared This For Another Marriage

I am the hold, I am the hemI will unleash when I want toYou scale me down or simplifyI’ll still take on the punches for you

I take the best of all I amI hang it out like a banner to dryYou tear it down, a parting shotYour dog will sleep in it tonight

Love, I cannot makeYou love and I cannot make

I see your face, I see the linesThe rise and fall of each lungful of airRemember when I said, ‘Anything. Any way at all.’

Love, I cannot makeYou love and I cannot makeYou love and I will not makeYou love me

I love how fussy we're being. It annoys me to no end when CDs have multiple lyrical/grammatical mistakes. I'm listening to Belle and Sebastian at the moment, and they are very wordy, but all their lyrics are mixed up and they have no idea where to put capital letters or apostrophes.

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